Thanks for visiting New Media Bytes. If you like what you see, subscribe to my RSS feed.If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I’ve been excited about American Idol contestant David Cook’s performances. I can’t help it. The guy is the most unique singer I’ve ever seen on the show.
But outside of his [...]
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One of the toughest things to train a new web producer on is tease-writing. Writing a very short amount of text to inform and excite a reader takes plenty of discipline and attention to detail.
Some news websites employ teases throughout their site, charging producers with creating engaging content to get readers to click [...]
I don’t know whether to be relieved or shocked. Erica Smith pointed out a great article by the Washington City Paper that depicts the sometimes disconnect between the Washington Post print edition and the washingtonpost.com.
The City Paper story opens with a vignette on how the WaPo Walter Reed Army Medical Center story was handled between [...]
What will the news site of the future look like? No one can be sure - well, at least I can’t. But the execs deciding the future of news sites should take a hint from VC web startup enthusiast Guy Kawasaki, whose new venture Alltop capitalizes on what works for news site readers.
Although Guy Kawasaki’s [...]
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